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Summary & Overview

HCPCS G9898: Institutional SNP or Long-Term Care Residency, Age 66+

HCPCS Level II code G9898 denotes beneficiaries aged 66 and older who are enrolled in Institutional Special Needs Plans (SNPs) or who have lived in long-term care facilities with specified place-of-service codes for more than 90 consecutive days during the measurement period. Nationally, this code is used to identify long-term institutional residency and plan enrollment status for older adults, informing quality measurement, care coordination, and reporting activities across payers. Key payers addressed in this analysis include Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna Health, UnitedHealthcare, and Medicare. Readers will learn what G9898 represents clinically and administratively, which payers commonly recognize it, and how it fits into reporting workflows. The publication provides benchmarks and policy-relevant context for evaluating long-term care residency measures, clarifies typical sites of service, and outlines implications for population health monitoring. Data limitations and supplementary code mappings are noted where input fields were not provided. This summary is written for a national audience and focuses on the code’s purpose in identifying institutionalized older adults for measurement and care management.

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Billing Code Overview

HCPCS Level II code G9898 identifies patients age 66 or older who are enrolled in Institutional Special Needs Plans (SNPs) or who have resided in long-term care settings with place of service codes 32, 33, 34, 54, or 56 for more than 90 consecutive days during the measurement period. This measure captures a population-level characteristic used for reporting and care management.

Service type: Long-term institutional care residency assessment and enrollment status determination
Typical site of service: Long-term care facilities and institutional settings (residence in locations indicated by POS codes 32, 33, 34, 54, 56 for >90 consecutive days)

Clinical & Coding Specifications

Clinical Context

A typical patient is an adult aged 66 or older enrolled in an Institutional Special Needs Plan (I-SNP) or residing in a long-term care facility (POS 32, 33, 34, 54, or 56) who has continuously resided in that institutional setting for more than 90 consecutive days during the measurement period. A common scenario: an 82-year-old nursing home resident with multiple chronic conditions (for example, hypertension and dementia) who receives routine primary care and care coordination within the facility. The clinical workflow begins with facility admission and ongoing documentation of residence dates in the medical record, confirmation of I-SNP enrollment in plan administrative records, and periodic clinician visits and care-plan updates. Coding staff or billers apply billing code G9898 to capture the quality-measure denominator criterion (patients age 66+ in I-SNP or long-term care with the specified POS codes for >90 consecutive days). Clinical documentation should include admission and discharge dates, encounter notes from attending clinicians, facility location documented with the appropriate place-of-service code, and evidence of continuous residency spanning the 90-day threshold during the measurement period.

Coding Specifications

Modifier	Description	When to Use

HCPCS G4019: Oncology/Hematology MIPS Specialty Set

HCPCS-G9622-UNHEALTHY-ALCOHOL-USE-SCREEN-NEGATIVE

HCPCS G9622: Negative Screening for Unhealthy Alcohol Use

HCPCS-G2207-REASON-FOR-NOT-ADMINISTERING-ADJUVANT-THERAPY

HCPCS G2207: Reason for Not Administering Adjuvant Chemotherapy/HER2 Therapy

HCPCS-G8844-AHI-RDI-REI-NOT-DOCUMENTED-AFTER-INITIAL-OSA-EVALUATION

HCPCS G8844: Missing AHI/RDI/REI Documentation After Initial OSA Evaluation

HCPCS-G9407-FOLLOW-UP-NOT-RECEIVED-WITHIN-7-DAYS-AFTER-DISCHARGE

HCPCS G9407: Patient Did Not Receive Follow-Up Within 7 Days After Discharge

HCPCS-G9775-MULTI-CLASS-ANTI-EMETIC-PROPHYLAXIS-PERIOPERATIVE

HCPCS G9775: Multi-Class Prophylactic Anti-Emetic Administration

HCPCS-G0029-TOBACCO-SCREENING-NOT-PERFORMED

HCPCS G0029: Tobacco Screening Not Performed or Cessation Not Provided

HCPCS-G0502-PSYCHIATRIC-COLLABORATIVE-CARE-MANAGEMENT-INITIAL-70-MINUTES

HCPCS G0502: Initial Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management, First 70 Minutes

HCPCS-G8694-LEFT-VENTRICULAR-EJECTION-FRACTION-LVEF-40-OR-LESS-LVSD-MODERATE-SEVERE

HCPCS G8694: Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction ≤40% or Moderate–Severe LVSD

HCPCS-G0085-EXTENSIVE-CARE-MANAGEMENT-HOME-VISIT-75MIN

HCPCS G0085: Extensive Care Management Home Visit, 75 Minutes

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Taxonomy Code	Specialty	Notes
`332B00000X`	Geriatric Medicine	Primary clinicians managing chronic conditions and care plans for long-term care residents
`207Q00000X`	Internal Medicine	Common primary care specialty providing ongoing care in nursing facilities
`2084P0800X`	Family Medicine	Provides longitudinal care and coordination for institutionalized older adults
`163W00000X`	Nursing Home/Extended Care Facility	Facility-based medical directors and attending clinicians responsible for resident care
`208000000X`	General Practice	Clinicians providing routine visits and documentation for quality measurement in the facility

ICD-10 Code	Description	Clinical Relevance
Data not available in the input.

Related CPT Codes

CPT Code	Description	Relationship to This Procedure
`99304`	Nursing facility or skilled nursing facility initial comprehensive preventive medicine evaluation and management of a new patient	Performed when a resident is newly admitted to a nursing facility; documents baseline and supports continuous residency determination
`99307`	Nursing facility subsequent care, per day, for the evaluation and management of an established patient	Used for routine follow-up visits during residency to document ongoing care and confirm continued presence in the facility
`99310`	Nursing facility discharge day management; per day	Used if a resident is discharged from the facility; documents end date of residency for calculation of consecutive days
`99497`	Advance care planning including first 30 minutes	Often performed in long-term care settings to document goals of care conversations relevant to the resident population captured by `G9898`
`99406`	Smoking and tobacco-use cessation counseling, intermediate, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes	Preventive counseling commonly delivered in institutional settings and documented alongside quality measures

`22`	Increased procedural services	When work required is substantially greater than typical for documentation or services provided in the institutional setting
`23`	Unusual anesthesia	If an encounter requires anesthesia under unusual circumstances during a procedure provided in the facility
`52`	Reduced services	When a service normally provided is partially reduced or not completed in the long-term care setting
`53`	Discontinued procedure	If a planned procedure is started but halted due to patient condition in the facility
`54`	Surgical care only	When only the surgical portion is billed and other perioperative care is billed by another practitioner in the facility
`55`	Postoperative management only	When only postoperative care is billed by a practitioner separate from the one performing the procedure in the facility
`56`	Preoperative management only	When only preoperative care is billed by a practitioner who does not perform the procedure in the facility
`62`	Two surgeons	When two surgeons of different specialties perform distinct parts of a single operative procedure in the facility
`AS`	Non‑participating anesthesiologist	When an anesthesiologist not enrolled in the payer’s program provides anesthesia services in the facility
`CQ`	Service furnished under a grant or contract	When services in the facility are furnished under an accountable care or demonstration contract
`QK`	Medical direction of two, three, or four concurrent anesthesia procedures involving qualified non‑physician anesthetists	When an anesthesiologist medically directs multiple concurrent anesthesia services in the facility
`QX`	CRNA service: CRNA with medical direction by a physician	When a certified registered nurse anesthetist provides anesthesia under physician direction in the facility
`QY`	Medical direction of one CRNA by an anesthesiologist	When an anesthesiologist directs a single CRNA in the facility

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